00:00The U.S. has charged former Cuban leader Raul Castro with four counts of murder over the decades-old shoot
00:06-down of U.S. civilian aircraft.
00:08In 1996, Cuban forces shot down two planes flown by the U.S.-based Cuban exile organization Brothers to the Rescue.
00:16Raul Castro, who led Cuba's military at the time, has now been indicted in the U.S. court over the
00:21attack with five other defendants.
00:24Castro is believed to be in Cuba.
00:25This comes in the mountain U.S. pressure on the Caribbean island nation, including a near-total energy embargo and
00:32following a U.S. raid on Venezuela several months ago to arrest then-leader Nicolás Maduro.
00:37The move has sparked fears of a potential U.S. invasion of Cuba.
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